proved

How To Use proved In A Sentence

• Rob's strengths lay in absorbing the pressure and criticism, and in doing this well he more than proved himself courageous, gutsy and tough.
• So this show proved to be a bit of a departure. Times, Sunday Times
• The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
• His posture improved so much that his clothes no longer fit.
• Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method. Propositional Consequence Relations and Algebraic Logic
• Improved safety measures in cars can be counterproductive as they encourage people to drive faster.
• Conditions have improved considerably over the past few years.
• It proved necessary to row ashore in a small dinghy, plunging through the hot spray past a Turkish battleship that had been moored for so long that the coral had grown up around it, immobilising it forever.
• It was a throwaway remark that proved tragically prophetic.
• But although there was a scare with my first sample being clear, as we'd only just arrived, my second proved that I, along with the entire Sunday Herald table, was completely ratted and therefore allowed to keep the trophy.